James A. Robichaux

@JamesRobichaux

Photographer, writer, pop-culture critic, journalist, educator, and inter-parish man-of-mystery.

Louisiana
Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2011.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. can't stand the pain when it's all the same to you my friend

  2. 3. velj
    Odgovor korisniku/ci

    yes, don't get too hiiiiiiiiiiiigh.

  3. 29. sij
    Odgovor korisniku/ci
  4. 21. sij

    "Hey, did you know that our masters use 'data' about us and sell it to other slaves' masters?" "WHAT? Really? That's awful! I feel so violated now! Well, I wasn't trying to free myself before, but, with this new information about 'data,' I think that we should escape!"

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  5. 21. sij

    "Your data, your experience" "I agree" "Learn more" Yeah, this whole "data as a property right" idea sounds like a convenient way to get you to acquiesce to them continuing to do this.

  6. 20. sij

    This is what shows up side by side in my feed, both universal basic income advocates and Job Guarantee advocates claiming that supported their policy, not the other one. 😞

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  7. 3. sij
    Odgovor korisnicima
  8. 3. sij
    Odgovor korisnicima

    Gee, thanks for proving that autistic people really do have reason to be suspicious.

  9. 3. sij
    Odgovor korisnicima

    Their very real and very longstanding concerns are not in any way a function of this article or the Yang campaign, and responses such as yours only encourage them to be even more defensive. So, again...

  10. Odgovor korisniku/ci
  11. This song is hauntingly beautiful. Merry Christmas to all of you. ❤️

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  12. My dear Twitter family, I don't like all of you, but I love all of you. Thank you for being who you are. Peace. Merry Christmas.

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  13. But Frugal Frank, regardless of what kind of person he is, should not have the POWER to buy towns, islands, vast stretches of land, water rights, and elections. Because NOBODY should have that kind of power.

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  14. Since a wealth tax and a VAT do completely different things, they serve completely different purposes. I am thrilled that a VAT would put deflationary pressure on Spendthrift Sam, hopefully making him deplete fewer of society's resources, and that should be the point of a VAT.

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  15. I realize that we are having this discussion in the context of an either-or choice between two *candidates* for office, but, in terms of *policy* discussions, there is no reason that there should be an either-or choice between a wealth tax and a value-added tax.

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  16. So, here is the gem of that NYT piece. The 'problem' that Mankiw describes here is a problem *if and only if* generating revenue is the point of a wealth tax! If reducing extreme wealth concentration is the point, then what is described here means that the tax has SUCCEEDED!

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  17. 5. pro 2019.

    There are many things that I hope that you take away from this explanation, but one of them is that the land dispossession argument is really about the only airtight argument for universal basic income. I welcome feedback.

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  18. 5. pro 2019.

    Your body is not the property of any other person. The Earth, which no person created, is also not the property of anyone, since no person created it. But we need exclusive land *control* in order to sustain modern production levels. And this is why we need UBI.

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  19. 5. pro 2019.

    Yang doesn't really talk about this. He often mentions *that* Thomas Paine argued for UBI, but he doesn't say much about *why* Paine argued for a UBI. He talks about UBI *as* a human right but doesn't talk much about *why* it is a human right.

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  20. 5. pro 2019.

    If you're saying that you need UBI because automation might take your job, you're not saying that the uncompensated monopolization of the land that no person created is why you're forced to do a job that robot could do in the first place. Do you see the difference?

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